Template:Did you know nominations/William Matthews (priest)

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The result was: promoted by MPJ-DK 01:27, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

William Matthews (priest)

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... that William Matthews was seventh President of Georgetown College and the first person born in British America to be ordained a Catholic priest?

ALT1:... that William Matthews was the first person born in British America to be ordained a Catholic priest?
Reviewed: Electors Under Will of Oliver Smith & Verrückt (water slide)
Comment: I think either one would work.

Created by Ergo Sum (talk). Self-nominated at 18:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC).

Some issues found.
- ✓ This article is new and was created on 17:15, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- ✓ This article meets the DYK criteria at 3325 characters
- ✗ Paragraphs [2] (Returning ... death.),[4] (After ... elevation.),[6] (Coming ... America.) in this article lack a citation.
- ✓ This article has no outstanding maintenance tags
- ✓ A copyright violation is unlikely according to automated metrics (2.0% confidence; confirm)
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No overall issues detected
- ✓ The hook ALT0 is an appropriate length at 140 characters
- ✓ The hook ALT1 is an appropriate length at 96 characters
- ✓ Ergo Sum has fewer than 5 DYK credits. No QPQ required. Note a QPQ will be required after 4 more DYKs.

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I've addressed the issue of too few references by adding a citation, clarifying which citations apply where, and cleaning up the citation formats. I don't believe there are any other outstanding issues. Ergo Sum 19:30, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

New enough and long enough, inline citations and references checks, factual and interesting hooks, close paraphrasing and neutrality is checked as well and approved, Good work, well done! This one is good to go. An image from the article could be used if needed.BabbaQ (talk) 20:00, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum and BabbaQ: - I came to promote this, did a bit of spot checking and I don't see a direct source for the claim that he was the first British America born to be ordained. There is a source later on, but it's not available to me so I cannot tell if this applies to the "first claim", in general the hook must be directly sourced in the text, by the actual sentence. Hopefully it is as simple as using the same source as the end of the paragraph, but I cannot just make that assumption. MPJ-DK 23:47, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

@MPJ-DK: Thanks for your diligence. The source that pertains to the hook is source number 1, the book titled "The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University." I understand that it is not available online as a URL, but it is a published book (the ISBN provided) with the specific chapter and page cited for the claim. Ergo Sum 01:08, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Excellent, I put that citation with the hook as well, just to make sure it's covered. putting it in prep 1.